I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional.

United States before the Supreme Court had deliberately suppressed reports from the FBI and military intelligence which concluded that Japanese-American citizens posed no security risk. As an unskilled laborer he was eligible to receive only $12 per month ($168. [2] Discussing racial profiling in 2004 he warned "No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race ethnicity or religion as a spy or terrorist.

The legality of the internment order was upheld by the United States Supreme Court in Korematsu v. Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu (是松 豊三郎 Korematsu Toyosaburō? January 30 1919 – March 30 2005) was one of the many Japanese-American citizens living on the West Coast at the onset of World War II.